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What do you think about Onion Mail? (lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Anon@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Actually, there are two services with the same name, onionmail.org and onionmail.info. Anyway, what do you think about it/them?

Thanks in advance.

(Edit: free accounts on onionmail.org can only receive emails, while onionmail.info is pretty hard to use).

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I would be cautious with both. The main concerns:

  1. Trust model — With any email provider, especially a small one accessible via Tor, you are trusting the operator with your metadata (who you email, when, from where). A .onion address does not magically make this trustworthy.

  2. Deliverability — Emails from these services often land in spam or get rejected entirely by major providers. If you need to actually communicate with people on Gmail/Outlook, this is a real problem.

  3. Longevity — Small Tor-based email services come and go. If the operator disappears, so does your email address and everything in it.

Better alternatives for privacy-focused email:

  • Proton Mail (free tier, E2EE, established track record, .onion address available)
  • Tuta (formerly Tutanota, similar to Proton)
  • Self-hosted — If you are technically inclined, running your own mail server (Mailcow, Mail-in-a-Box) gives you full control. It is more work but you own everything.

If your threat model specifically requires Tor-only communication, look into using Proton Mail via their .onion address, or use XMPP/Matrix over Tor instead of email entirely.

[-] Anon@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Do you feel like their comments are AI-generated? Just my feeling...

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